Ad Nauseam
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.
Combos with Ad Nauseam
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Lich Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Cloudsteel Kirin Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Phyrexian Unlife Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Platinum Angel Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Soul Echo Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Triskaidekaphile Infinite
- Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
- Teferi's Protection Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Gideon of the Trials Infinite
- Infinite card draw
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2026-03-20
You may continue to reveal cards with Ad Nauseam even if your life total has been reduced to 0 or less. If you continue, you will continue to lose life, dropping your life total into negative numbers. As soon as you stop, you'll lose the game as a state-based action.
- 2026-03-20
If a card in a player's library has X in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- 2026-03-20
Each time you put the revealed card into your hand and lose the appropriate amount of life, you decide whether to continue by revealing another card. You don't decide in advance how many cards to put into your hand this way.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Ad Nauseam, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betor, Ancestor's Voice | 1 | 1 | — |
| Dargo, the Shipwrecker | 1 | 0 | — |
| Doctor Doom, King of Latveria | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied | 1 | 0 | — |
| Noctis, Prince of Lucis | 1 | 0 | — |
| Tymna the Weaver | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Rakdos 1 deck
- Grixis 1 deck
- Abzan 1 deck
- Mardu 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Ad Nauseam price history
The Double Masters #76 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | $10.51 | $58.43 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $10.51 | $58.43 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $10.50 | $58.43 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $10.47 | $58.43 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $10.51 | $58.43 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $10.50 | $58.43 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $10.49 | $58.43 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $10.28 | $58.43 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $10.05 | $58.43 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $10.06 | $60.18 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $10.07 | $60.18 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $9.89 | $60.18 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $9.84 | $60.18 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $9.71 | $60.18 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $9.89 | $60.18 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $9.88 | $60.18 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $9.81 | $60.18 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $9.85 | $60.18 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $9.73 | $62.31 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $9.67 | $62.31 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $9.61 | $62.31 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $9.60 | $68.08 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Ad Nauseam
5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Showcase
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Foil
- $231.58
Showcase
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Normal
- $10.91
- Foil
- $13.63
Showcase
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Normal
- $31.07
- Normal
- $10.51
- Foil
- $58.43
- Normal
- $10.59
- Foil
- $181.99
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Ad Nauseam. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
